Practical Forum on Operator Obligations & Safety Responsibilities on June 22, 2023, in Hamburg.
How do you handle operator obligations and safety responsibilities during times of energy cost pressure and inflation? What must you do, what can you leave? And above all: how can one become more efficient and save costs when it comes to essential safety measures? We aim to address these questions at the Practical Forum on Safety Measures, a workshop format that we are organizing for the 5th time in collaboration with the Real Estate Consulting GmbH – a practical event designed for industry professionals. Legal obligations that you must strictly comply with and that are part of your daily business arise from the Hazardous Substances Act and the Drinking Water Regulations. Both regulations have recently been revised, with the Drinking Water Regulations undergoing a complete restructuring. As a practitioner from the housing industry, Reno Schütt, Managing Director of GEWO Nordhorn GmbH, delved into the requirements of the new Hazardous Substances Regulation, particularly regarding asbestos, more than a year ago. He is eager to share his insights and experiences in this field with his professional colleagues. Since 2019, our board member Marcus Pikarek has been a permanent speaker for the BBA (Building and Real Estate Academy) on legal and [...]
Legionella
Since 2003 the (German) Drinking Water Directive stipulates that central hot water systems have to be tested for the microbiological parameter Legionella spec. No more than 100 colony-forming units (100 CFU) of those bacteria should be present in 100 ml of drinking water; otherwise further (technical) measures to reduce the contamination are mandatory. But what exactly are Legionella?
Hygiene institute analyzes 1 million samples.
Hygiene institute analyzes 1 million samples: 16.5% of buildings affected by Legionella, 0.3% of samples highly contaminated.
BBA Drinking Water Seminar with Laboratory Tour and “Live” Legionella Culturing on June 6th in Berlin.
Many companies are about to undergo their third major round of routine drinking water testing for Legionella in their building stock. As in previous intervals, the conditions have once again changed. Therefore, on June 6, 2019, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Housing Economy (BBA) will host a seminar in Berlin that provides training on new and current regulations and requirements of the Drinking Water Ordinance. A special highlight of the event is the live demonstration of a Legionella analysis in the laboratory at the end of the seminar.
125 years institute for hygiene und public health of the university Bonn
On Friday, September 20th, 2019, the 125th anniversary of the institute for hygiene and public health (ihph) was celebrated in the university club Bonn. All speeches were held not only by excellent experts of medicine and hygiene but by extraordinary capacities in public health research and science. The specialists all agreed in one point: to meet future challenges it will not be enough to gather and apply expert know-how, it needs meta competence as a key factor for every expert to attain good results in the tasks the "global village" presents. Honored was Prof. Dr. med Martin Exner who has presided the institute for more than 25 years for his outstanding achievements in the public health sector - not only in Germany but worldwide.
Legionella in the shade of Corona: 12.000 water samples taken in Covid19-times evaluated
In the proceedings of the dominating covid19 pandemic industrial, commercial and private buildings had to be shutdown to avoid the spread of the corona virus The German Robert-Koch-Institute (RKI) warned not to neglect the health hazards coming from drinking water installations in terms of legionella growth if the facilities are out of operation for a longer period of time. We took a look at our own set of drinking water data all gathered in corona-times - with surprising results.
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